Cancellation Cancelled: Cebu → Baybay, Saturday 12 September, 9:00 PM+3 more
Cancellations in force
Prepared by iStart International
We would show four of them first: booking online, following a shipment, the numbers on management’s phone, and the weather the captain sails into. That is our pick — the other 27 are set out in full below, 31 in all, and any of them can take their place.
Illustrative rendering based on MV Immaculate Stars.
31
Functionalities
4 highlights · 31 in total
58
Pages
Every route, port, vessel and fare has its own
90
Mobile speed score
Up from 22 on the current site
0.47MB
Data per visit
Down from 19.7 MB
4 highlights · 31 in total · 58 pages
Highlights
These are the four we think will change the most for passengers, shippers and management — our pick, not a ranking. You know the business better than we do; the full list is below, and any of them can move up.
Book a sailing
robleshipping.com / book
Cebu City → Hilongos
9:00 PM · MV Immaculate Stars · 5 h
E-ticket — scan at the gangway
RSL-7F3K92 · 2 passengers · Tourist
Sent by email. The same code counts them aboard.
Reserve or buy a seat, a cabin or a vehicle slot from a phone, and reach the pier with the QR code already in hand.
Track a shipment
CGO-2291
Received at yardFri 4:12 PM
Cebu · bay 3
LoadedFri 8:31 PM
Deck 2 · photo taken
SailedFri 9:04 PM
MV Immaculate Stars
ArrivedSat 2:10 AM
Hilongos, expected
Released—
To the consignee, on presentation of the gate pass
Plate history: 14 crossings with Roble since March.
The shipper follows a vehicle or a shipment through five stages — received, loaded, sailed, arrived, released — with photographs from the ramp.
Roble · Today
7:00 AM
86%
Occupancy tonight
₱412,800
Revenue today
94%
On time, 7 days
7
Open inquiries
Load factor, 7 days
Daily summary, sent 7:00 AM.
Live occupancy, revenue, load factor and on-time performance in one screen — and a summary that arrives at 7 AM every day.
PAGASA Signal No. 1 · Eastern SamarTonight’s crossing
Cebu → Hilongos 9:00 PM · wind NE 15 kt · waves 1.2 m · rain from 2 AM
Wind, waves, swell, pressure and rain for the next 72 hours, on a chart of Roble's own routes.
And that’s not all
Everything from the live sailings board and the booking-office map to passenger check-in at the gangway and the captain's bridge tools — set out below in the three parts they come in. The four highlights are in there too, each one in the group it belongs to, so with them that is 31 in total. Here is the full list.
31 in total: 17 with the website, 7 more with the app, 7 more with Starlink.
With the website
The public site and the control room behind it: sailings, fares, advisories and inquiries in one place, kept current by Roble's own staff. These 17 are what the website gives Roble on its own, with nothing else bought or installed.
2 of them are among the highlights shown above, and are first in the list.
Shows what is actually left on a sailing, class by class, from Roble's own seat and cabin inventory. Takes payment by GCash, Maya or card — or holds the seats and lets the passenger pay at an office within a set time.
Occupancy per sailing, live, class by class. Revenue today and this week, passage and freight kept apart.
Choose from, to and a date; see the sailings for that day with departure time, vessel and lowest fare. If there is no sailing that day, the next available dates are offered.
The next departures on every route, in Cebu time, each marked on time, boarding, departed, cancelled or on hold. Updates itself every 30 seconds.
One page per route with both directions by weekday, the vessel, crossing time and the current advisories for that route.
Every accommodation class with its regular, senior/PWD, student, solo-parent, seafarer and minor fare, exactly as published.
Pick a route, a class and the passengers by type; the total appears with the temporary fuel surcharge shown as its own line, plus the documents to bring for each discount.
Two questions produce the exact checklist for minors travelling alone or with another adult, medical conditions, discount IDs and vehicles.
All six offices on a map with hours, an open-now indicator, directions, one-tap calling and sorting by distance from the passenger.
Surcharges, schedule changes, cancellations and policy notices, each with effective dates and affected routes, shown in a banner on every page while active.
A page per port (sailings, port map, local office) and per vessel (cabin classes with photos and fares, amenities).
One tap switches the interface between English, Cebuano, Filipino, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Bikol, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Tausug and Chavacano, and every page can be carried the whole way into any of them once the wording has been read by someone who speaks it.
Needs — A native-speaker review of each language's wording
Any route page can be printed or sent as a link from a phone, for a passenger who wants to share a schedule or keep a copy.
Advisories sent automatically to subscribers by route. Free channels first: notifications from the website itself, email, automatic posts to Roble's Viber, Messenger or Facebook. SMS (about ₱0.50–1 per text) reserved for cancellations.
Needs — Sender registration and SMS credits
Freight tables online, kept current from the control room like passenger fares.
Needs — The current freight tariff
Separate logins for passage, freight, HR and management; each sees only their part of the control room.
Needs — A staff list
Every published advisory also posts to Roble's Facebook Page, so the passengers who watch the Page see the same notice at the same moment.
Needs — Facebook Page admin access
Add the app
The app is the same system in the hands of the crew and the pier staff, on ordinary Android tablets and phones. It adds these 7 on top of the website's 17 — they are extra, not a share of them. Every device works offline and syncs at the pier.
2 of them are among the highlights shown above, and are first in the list.
Five plain stages with the time each one happened: received at the yard, loaded, sailed, arrived, released. Photographs taken at the ramp — the vehicle and its plate as it is loaded, and again as it is released.
Wind, waves, swell, pressure and rain for 72 hours, drawn on a chart of Roble's routes rather than a national map. PAGASA signals and typhoon tracks laid over the same chart, with JTWC's track beside them.
Scans the QR code on a printed ticket, e-ticket or reservation. Counts boarded passengers against the manifest in real time, rejects a ticket used twice or for the wrong sailing, and flags discount tickets for an ID check.
Needs — An ordinary Android phone or tablet at the gangway
Scans the QR code on a gate pass or cargo booking, photographs the vehicle and plate, records the deck position, and marks loaded and unloaded. Optionally a plate-reading camera (ANPR) at the gate records every plate in and out and alerts staff to a vehicle with no booking.
Needs — A device at the ramp and at the yard gate
Looks up any booking, shows cabin and seat availability for the sailing, sells an upgrade (Economy to Tourist, Tourist to Cabin) with a payment reference, re-issues a lost ticket, and answers “where is my cargo”.
Needs — A device at the desk
One tap sets the sailing status — boarding, departed, delayed with a reason, arrived — and the public sailings board updates at once. Sends announcements to passengers' phones, holds the digital manifest for the Coast Guard and MARINA, and carries an emergency panel: medical, fire, man overboard, security.
Needs — A tablet on the bridge
Scans, sales and status changes are stored on the device and sent when the ship reaches port or, with Starlink on board, immediately. Because boarding is scanned, the ship always knows how many people are on board, and in an emergency the bridge sees checked-in versus accounted-for, by deck, in seconds.
Add Starlink
The 24 above run on ordinary mobile data at the piers. These 7 need the ship to be online while it is sailing, which today means a satellite link on the vessel — a separate subscription, described further down.
Each ship on a map on the website and app, from its own GPS, with an estimated arrival time.
Needs — A link at sea
The public sailings board switches to boarding, departed, delayed or arrived from the ship's actual movement, without anyone typing.
Needs — A link at sea
Check-ins, upgrades sold on board and cargo status reach the office as they happen, not at the next port. Occupancy and revenue are live.
Needs — A link at sea
The emergency panel and passenger announcements work mid-crossing; the office and the Coast Guard number are one press away.
Needs — A link at sea
PAGASA bulletins and the office's advisories reach the captain while sailing; a cancellation or diversion is published from the bridge at once.
Needs — A link at sea
Recordings stay on the ship; the office can open a camera or receive short event clips during the crossing — useful to the office and to onboard security alike.
Needs — A link at sea, and cameras already on board
Internet for passengers on board, free or sold in packages, within the limits of the satellite plan; messages home for the crew on overnight sailings.
Needs — A link at sea on a larger data plan
Honest about the one that costs
Everything in the website and the app works with ordinary mobile data at the piers. A handful of functions need the ship to be online while sailing. The only practical way to do that in the Philippines today is a Starlink satellite link on each vessel. 2GO Travel offers Starlink Wi-Fi on selected vessels (2026).
Cost, in round terms
iStart builds and supports the software that uses the link: the live map, the status board, the bridge tools and the synchronisation. The satellite subscription, the antenna installation and the on-board Wi-Fi network are separate items, supplied and supported by the satellite and network providers; they are not part of iStart's technical support. If Roble is interested, we look into it together as a separate piece of work.
How it runs
Step 1
We walk through this demo together and agree what Roble wants, function by function, and in what order it matters.
Step 2
Roble's own fares, schedules, fleet details and photographs replace the demo placeholders.
Step 3
Two to three months of building against Roble's real systems, tested with Roble's own staff before anything is opened to the public.
Step 4
The site and the app go live for passengers and staff together, when everything is ready — with iStart supporting it afterward.
Who provides what
Our recommendation
One build. Starlink is optional.
The website and app ship together as one build, launched when everything is ready. Starlink is a separate satellite subscription, not software — Roble can add it anytime.
